When division threatens to engulf us, Easter calls us to embrace our enemies
Over Easter 2024, four articles were commissioned by our xvox team and delivered to various mainstream news outlets for publication.
This article was written by Bishop Justin Duckworth and published in NZ Herald. Bishop Justin Duckworth is the current Anglican Bishop of Wellington.
This is an excerpt from the article -
“Jesus chose to go about transformation in a way that always saw the image of God in the other, even as he in turn was betrayed, tortured and killed. Even on the cross, he asked for the forgiveness of those who have hurt him.
For me, there is nothing more powerful than the death and resurrection of Jesus – the creator of the world giving of himself in a self-emptying ethic of love, enthroned to death and ultimately overcoming death itself.
We in turn are invited into that same posture of emptying ourselves for others, just as Jesus did. The cross invites us into a real relationship, in which we can partner with God to bring a better reality.”